The barbershop has long been a trusted place in many communities for men to gather and converse. Join the HMAP national partners for informal, unscripted dialogue about healthy masculinity.

Oct. 18: AWARENESS CONVERSATIONS

7:00 am – 4:00 pm, Summit Registration, outside East Ballroom

8:00 – 9:00 am, Continental Breakfast, outside East Ballroom

9:00 am – 10:30 am, Opening Keynote Conversation, East Ballroom

What is Healthy Masculinity, and How Can It Improve Our Lives?A Conversation among Healthy Masculinity Action Project National Partners:Men Can Stop Rape, Men Stopping Violence, A CALL TO MEN, Women of Color Network, Coach for America, and the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence

10:45 am – 12:15 pm, Breakout Morning Awareness Conversations

Each of the Awareness Conversations will begin by sharing personal and public stories about masculinity and a particular topic. This sharing will help us gather data that raises our awareness about how masculinity affects our lives in healthy and harmful ways.

Room 12: Healthy Masculinity and Sports

Room 13: Healthy Masculinity and the Workplace

Room 14: Healthy Masculinity and Fatherhood

Room 15: Healthy Masculinity and Education

Room 16: Healthy Masculinity and Faith

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm, Luncheon Keynote, East Ballroom

A conversation with the morning Awareness Conversation facilitators about discussions they had related to sports, workplace, fatherhood, education, faith, and healthy masculinity

A conversation about Healthy Masculinity and the worlds of trafficking.

10:30 – 12:00 am, Breakout Morning Action Conversations

Each of the Action Conversations will focus on strategizing about an audience of men that participants want to engage by determining who they have access to or can gain access to; why they want to engage that audience; what they want to engage the audience in; and how they are going to persuade the audience to become engaged.

All participants will be provided with a Healthy Masculinity Action Guide that will include the following: forming a Healthy Masculinity Working Group in your community; using The Five Ps, a framework for positively engaging men; and hosting a Healthy Masculinity Town Hall.